I didn't study writing in school, I studied biology as an undergraduate and graduate student. So I think that I write fiction… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Best of all, persons can sometimes be app-transcendent: making dramatic progress or discoveries, without any dependence on any app. In this context,… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
You don't realize what a strain it is on the nerves to write or think-of-writing all day long, and to sleep full… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Either one or the other [analysis or synthesis] may be direct or indirect. The direct procedure is when the point of departure… — Andre-Marie Ampere Copy Share Image
When you receive criticism from well-meaning people, it pays to ask, ‘Are they right?’ And if they are, you need to adapt… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have… — Larry Page Copy Share Image
I think crossing into the digital age is the big move for the industry. I think it will be the biggest thing… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Some tips for life: 1.Don't be afraid to follow your dreams, unless your dreams are stupid. 2.Be kind to people. 3.Don't get… — Eugene Mirman Copy Share Image
In the abstract art of cooking, ingredients trump appliances, passion supersedes expertise, creativity triumphs over technique, spontaneity inspires invention, and wine makes… — Bob Blumer Copy Share Image
As a medical doctor who chose a career in artificial heart technology rather than clinical practice, I decided not to take an… — Robert Jarvik Copy Share Image
Over the years, I have learned that every significant invention has several characteristics. By definition it must be startling, unexpected, and must… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
More than any other contemporary British playwright, Tom Stoppard populates his plays -- from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead to The Invention… — Mel Gussow Copy Share Image
You look at science (or at least talk of it) as some sort of demoralising invention of man, something apart from real… — Rosalind Franklin Copy Share Image
I've heard some designers talk about the design process being centred on invention, starting with a blank slate. I admire that and… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
I would say that, in the future, the book will be reserved for things that function best as a book. So, if… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an intuition-and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise.… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
From this haunting feeling of being not wanted, which remained a recurrent haunt through life, I found two ways of escape, both… — Anna Louise Strong Copy Share Image
The quintessential exercise of free speech in a culture supposedly built on that concept and dedicated to it, the Internet's development is… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
I do not share the pessimism of the age about the novel. They are one of our greatest spiritual, aesthetic and intellectual… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Having the benefit to our society, not only here in the United States but throughout the world with the amount of invention… — Mark Kelly Copy Share Image
The inventor is a man who looks around upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants… — Alexander Graham Bell Copy Share Image
The biggest invention of modern time is the book. The book is a digital medium; book text is written in a different… — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
Unpleasant, even dangerous, qualities can be found in every nation and every individual: it is cruel to demand that the Jew be… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Intellectual-property rules are clearly necessary to spur innovation: if every invention could be stolen, or every new drug immediately copied, few people… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
The fear of the never-ending onslaught of gizmos and gadgets is nothing new. The radio, the telephone, Facebook - each of these… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on a mathematical course. But that… — Humphrey Carpenter Copy Share Image
This is the secret I kept from you, Bails, from myself too: I think I liked that Mom was gone, that she… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
When we work with history, to a very great degree we are all guessing. But by using motifs of time and history… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
It was good of Friedrich Nietzsche to declare God dead - I declare that he has never been born. It is a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
All the inventions and devices ever constructed by the human hand or conceived by the human mind, no matter how delicate, how… — John Harvey Kellogg Copy Share Image
The phrase, 'Emancipation of Women' is only an invention of the Jewish intellect and its content is stamped with the same spirit.… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The invention of photography provided a radically new picture-making process - a process based not on synthesis but on selection. The difference… — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
Necessity is the mother of invention. I love solving things like that. Because there wasn't enough memory, thinking of an economical way… — Shigeru Miyamoto Copy Share Image
I like it when you reach into a vending machine to grab your candy bar, and that flap goes up to block… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
Gay people are born into, and belong to, every society in the world. They are all ages, all races, all faiths. They… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For Rousseau and Mandeville the absence of a moral instinct meant the laws of society had no moral validity, they were nothing… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
Mr. Cruncher... always spoke of the year of our Lord as Anna Dominoes: apparently under the impression that the Christian era dated… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I would say that, in the future, the book will be reserved for things that function best as a book. So, if… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
we can't be creative if we refuse to be confused. Change always starts with confusion; cherished interpretations must dissolve to make way… — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image